A small engineering company, Wallace & Sons Research Pty Ltd (WSR) has developed, patented and are applying a group of products with a very wide range of applications in the mining and mineral processing industries. Each of the products has been specifically designed to provide cost-effective solutions to existing materials handling problems and for which there are currently no satisfactory remedies available.

The solutions have been directed towards: -

• The handling of sticky ores and process streams without blockages.

• Increasing the durability of wearing components.

• Ease of replacement for maintenance and minimisation of plant downtime.

• Facilitation of safe operating conditions.

• Reductions of related dust and spillage aspects.

The above issues are becoming increasingly problematic for the mining communities because the mines are becoming deeper and wetter, production rates and conveying speeds are rapidly increasing, the hourly costs of plant downtime are relatively higher and the mines are becoming more safety and environmentally aware.

The products have been derived from over 50 years of an exceedingly wide range of experiences in the mining and process industries throughout Australia and from a very successful application history in the development of unique solutions for difficult engineering and operation problems. Techniques used in the refining of each product include cost benefit studies and field trials.